[99] Le Grand Palais. Epigram 8 in the Anthologia Graeca epigrammatum (vol. i. Stadt-Mueller) celebrates the erection by Justinian of SS. Peter and Paul, εἰς τὸν ναὸν τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων πλησίον τοῦ ἁγίου Σεργίου εἰς τὰ Ὁρμίσδου.
[100] Baronius, x. p. 43 'ex domo Placidiana, ubi degebat, confugit ad ibi proxime junctam ecclesiam S. Petri'; cf. Vigilius' letter, Ep. vii. t. i. Ep. Rom. pont.
[101] Theoph. p. 349; Malalas, p. 485.
[102] Notitia. Two palaces bearing similar names stood in the First Region of the city, the Palatium Placidianum and the Domus Placidiae Augustae. Vigilius refers to the palace in his circular letter, giving an account of his treatment at Constantinople. There also the legates of Pope Agatho were lodged in 680, on the occasion of the First Council in Trullo, and there likewise Pope Constantine in 710, when he came to the East at the command of Justinian II., took up his abode.—Anastasius Bibliothecarius, pp. 54, 65.
[103] Epistola ccli. See Du Cange, Const. Christ. iv. p. 116.
[104] 'Under the microscope of modern historical criticism, ... it is not surprising to find that the famous embassy of John the Grammarian to the court of Baghdad must be rejected as a fiction irreconcilable with fact.'—Prof. Bury in the English Historical Review, April 1909. But he was sent on other embassies.
[105] Constant. Porphyr. pp. 87-88.
[106] Similar to the parakypticon at the east end of the southern gallery in S. Sophia. Reiske (Comment. ad Constant. Porphyr. p. 195) defines it as 'Fenestra, quae in sacrificatorium despicit e catechumeniis.' Cf. on the whole subject, Antoniadi, Ἔκφρασις τῆς Ἁγιας Σοφίας, vol. ii. p. 291, note 101; p. 331, note 190; p. 332.
[107] The plan of SS. Sergius and Bacchus is similar to that of the cathedral of Bosra (511-12), which was also dedicated to the same saints. Fergusson, History of Ancient and Mediaeval Architecture, vol. i. p. 432.
[108] Gyllius, De Top. C.P. ii. c. 16. If the design represented vine leaves and grapes, it surely did not allude to the god Bacchus, but to the vine in the gospel of S. John. The small columns on the piers are Turkish.